Does anyone remember those rhymes? I remember we used these rhymes to select the ‘it’ person for games like Bulldog or Stuck-in-the-Mud for endless fun back in the days when we all lived in la-la land. Here are some of my favourite ones:
*Eenie meenie macaraca
Dee die dominaca
Chickenpoppa lollypoppa
Om pom push
Ibble obble black bobble
Ibble obble out
Turn a dirty dishcloth inside out
Once if it’s dirty
Twice if it’s clean
Ibble obble black bobble
You are out
Ip Dip
Sky Blue
Whose It?
Not you.
Not because you’re dirty
Not because your clean
But because my mother says your the fairiest queen
So out you must go.*
Add your favourite ones, especially urdu or punjabi ones.
I just realised this sounds really girly girly - and it probably was - but for the sake of equal opportunities and all that here's a real gem and boy's favourite:
Number 1 stole the apple from the apple tree ...who me, yes you ,couldn't have been, then who?
Number 2 stole the apple from the apple tree...
...so on and so forth till the last player who would tag someone after confessing and the tagged would be the one who stole the apple in the next round...I think.
Three sailors went to sea sea sea
to see what the could see see see
but all that they could see see see
was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea
Ippa dippa dation
my operation how many people at the station
(The one pointed at would then give a figure e.g. 3)
3
123 O U T spells out and off went a person. Ofcourse we cheated and figured out the numbers which would get the other people out. Eventually we stopped playing it.
I just love these cute little lines. You know how stuff you loved as a child takes on greater significance when you’re old – or much older than you like to admit? Well the more I get on the more i realise their strategic value. I'm really crap at decision making. I can't stand all the rational-legal decision making stuff. Even when I have to toss a coin, I can never make up my mind whether to toss three times or five and this of course confuses me even more. So I figured the best way to make an important and totally unbiased decision is to use eenie meenie miney mo thingamagy. It really does work. Next time you make important decisions in your life such as what outfit to wear, whether or not to eat that last slice of Chocolate Raspberry Cheescake and who to spend the rest of your life with, it all really becomes as simple as ‘Ip dip doo, the cat’s got the flu, mother’s got the chicken pox, so out goes you’.
that is so cute